A man accused of raping a young woman 16 years ago told a jury he was 40 miles away when it happened.
Martin Done, 44, told Leeds Crown Court yesterday that he was working in Oldham when the woman, who was 22 and had a six-week-old baby, was attacked in her Keighley home on May 19, 1989.
Done, a non-driver, said he was driven to work by his wife Catherine. He was arrested last June after his DNA was found to match samples taken at the scene.
Both were working at B-Mill and she gave a lift to him and other workers from Keighley who were going to the factory.
Done, of Grange Grove, Riddlesden, Keighley, has denied the offence. He said: "At 10am on Friday, May 19, I was at my place of work in Oldham, Lancashire, 40 miles away over the Pennines. My wife took me by car.
"I worked there days only and the only way to get there was with her."
He said he worked cutting foam for furniture manufacture and never had days off.
Earlier the jury heard that Done had been convicted of committing a disorder offence in the mid-1980s when he was a striker at the former Silentnight factory in Cross Hills near Skipton.
And he confessed to having had extra-marital affairs, one with a friend's wife and the other with a relative. Both occurred in about 2000/2001.
Done was arrested in June following an attack on a taxi driver in 1999 in which he had given a DNA sample.
Detectives scanning the national DNA records linked Done to the rape offence.
Detective Superintendent John Parkinson, who heads Operation Recall which re-examines unsolved crimes by using DNA profiles, told the court that Done's four brothers - Philip, 52, Michael, 49, Keith, 47, and Paul, 41 - had refused to give DNA samples as part of the investigation.
"Without reasonable grounds for suspicion there are no grounds for compelling an individual to supply a sample of DNA," he said.
The court was told that the "hit" on Done's DNA showed there was a one in a billion chance the rapist was not him or someone related to him.
Done is said to have sneaked into the woman's house wearing a Ku Klux Klan-style hood and carrying a carpet knife, raped her and threatened to kill her baby.
The case continues.
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